Facepalm: System cleaning app CCleaner has made the headlines quite a bit over the last few years, but most of it hasn't been good publicity. Keeping with that trend, one user recently found that ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — That 2.3 million CCleaner app hack reported Tuesday? It turns out the actual end goal may have been a few dozen high-value targets in the tech industry, an example of the lengths ...

Crowned as the best Windows junk and temporary file cleaning and optimizing tool, CCleaner has received an update from its developers. CCleaner 6 is available for download. Besides improved ...

Reports are coming in that Piriform is forcing CCleaner to update to the latest 5.46 version even when users had configured the program to not perform automatic updates. To make matters worse, once ...

More than two million people who downloaded security software CCleaner have been infected by malware on their computers, its developers have confirmed. Piriform, the company behind the software, said ...

Update: On September 25, Avast confirmed that of the 18 companies targeted, a total of 40 computers were successfully infected with a secondary malware installation at the following companies: Samsung ...

Refuge, which is the UK’s largest provider of shelters for domestic abuse victims, says the problem is growing (Getty/iStock) More than two million people used an extremely popular software cleaning ...

Security software giant Avast has acquired Piriform, the U.K.-based company behind CCleaner -- one of the most popular system cleaners on desktop and mobile. Founded out of London in 2004, Piriform is ...

More than two million people who downloaded security software CCleaner have been infected by malware on their computers, its developers have confirmed. Piriform, the company behind the software, said ...